Chapter 434 - We Were Just Hurt Inside (1/2)
In the next few days, Jiang Rui forbade those guys from coming. Bear and Ah Zi went out to enjoy the time just the two of them while Xiao Si was asked to stay in the villa by Scar. Scar said that he did it to protect his own virginity.
Han Xueying suggested several times that Xiao Si should move out, but he wouldn’t go. Scar pretended that he couldn’t do anything about it. Han Xueying almost felt that there was something abnormal between them.
On the thirteenth of the New Year, everyone finished their vacation. So Jiang Rui took Chen Chen to an island of the Wan family by boat, while others took the plane to go back to the capital.
Han Xueying pulled the suitcase and said goodbye to Scar unwillingly.
“Where will you go?” Scar smiled and said, “You told me that you don’t have any relatives, didn’t you? Then you can stay with us.”
“Is that okay?” Han Xueying’s smile was too much to hide. She looked in Jiang Rui’s direction.
Scar saw him too, “Our master won’t mind our personal affairs.”
“Those words were meaningful”, Han Xueying thought in mind. Those days, Xiao Si stayed between them every day, which made her less confident towards Scar. At the moment, it seemed that Scar still had a feeling for her.
“Then… I will have to trouble you.” She gave Scar an attractive smile.
Jiang Rui saw that Chen Chen kept talking to Ah Zi without an end, so he stared at Bear.
Bear understood and took Ah Zi away. Chen Chen followed Jiang Rui onto the boat and saw the island of the Wan family at dusk.
“This year, Tuan Zi is here. So they decorated the island like that.”
The whole island was bright and shining. It was all full of colorful lanterns. They observed it from the boat and felt it was as if they were entering a fairy tale.
Getting close to the shore, they heard Tuan Zi’s voice far away.
“Dad! Mum!” The little figure ran to the dock and there was another small figure following her, “Sis, wait for Junjun! Wait for me!”
Chen Chen ran out rapidly and held Tuan Zi up, “Happy New Year!”
“Happy New Year, Mum! Where’s my present?” Tuan Zi looked at her smilingly. Chen Chen pouted, “You must have gotten a lot of red packets from your grandpa and grandma. And you still want a gift?”
Jiang Rui extended his hands and said, “Come here.”
“Dad!” Tuan Zi rushed over and said, “I missed you so much.”
“Um, I missed Tuan Zi too.” Jiang Rui held his daughter with one arm, while pulling Chen Chen with the other hand. The little woman was still jealous because her daughter obviously showed more passion to her dad.
Wan Junmin cutely looked at Chen Chen. Chen Chen was about to hold him up when Jiang Rui said, “Don’t hold him. Too heavy.
“Then we can hold hands!” Chen Chen quickly gave her hand to Wan Junmin.
Arriving in a path, Chen Huan and Xin Qing stood there and looked at them smilingly.
“Mum!” Chen Chen walked faster and amended, “Aunt Qing.”
“What did you call me?” Xin Qing glared.
Chen Chen smiled foolishly. “Mum!”
Jiang Rui walked to them too and said, “Mum.”
Chen Huan smiled widely without knowing and laughed while looking at Chen Chen.
“Let’s go back first!” Xin Qing held Chen Chen’s hand and said, “Liuliu, you should come to my room after dinner. I have something for you.”
Wan Qingsi was playing with the little baby with Ah Sha and greeted them the moment he saw them. Especially Ah Sha who strangely shouted to Chen Chen, “Fighting!”
“Follow me.” Wan Qingsi said to Jiang Rui with a dark face.
Chen Chen felt the atmosphere was strange. When they were about to have dinner, Boss Wan and Wan Qingsi held Jiang Rui back.
“Your face!” Chen Chen asked, astonished, “Did… did they hit you?”
Wan Qingsi’s face turned completely dark, “What do you mean by they? I’m your elder brother by the way.”
“Brother!” Chen Chen smiled to please him. Then she pulled Boss Wan to sit and asked, “Dad, why did you beat Brother Xiao Rui?”
Boss Wan rolled his eyes at his daughter helplessly and said, “From now on, if he dares to be mean to you, I’ll beat him to death.”
“No!” Chen Chen spoke for Jiang Rui, “Brother Xiao Rui is nice to me. He won’t be mean to me.”
Wan Qingsi stared at her angrily and said, “You don’t help your own family.”
She stuck out her tongue at her brother. Then Chen Chen advised after she saw the bruises on Jiang Rui’s face, “Brother Xiao Rui, I can rub some medical oil on you.”
“You can go now!” Xin Qing hurried to drive them away. Then Chen Chen noticed that Ying Qingcang was not there.
Before she could ask, she was pushed away by Jiang Rui.
“Brother Xiao Rui, do you know where Uncle Ying is?” Chen Chen asked when she opened the medical case.
Jiang Rui touched the bruises on his face and said carelessly, “His father passed away.”
As for Ying Hao, nobody felt emotionally connected to him except for Ying Qingcang. The hardship Xin Qing had been through was mostly indirectly caused by him. Although he didn’t end up well and had to live unconsciously in the secret base with the old village head, it might be a relief for him that he had died.
“Ah, that’s all right for him. He won’t have to be in pain anymore.” Chen Chen felt a little sad. She went to the base once when she was young to let the village head check her body. There she saw Ying Hao who was sitting, blank faced.
None of them knew that the old man was conscious inside, but he just couldn’t express himself.
Jiang Rui saw her speechless, so he pointed at the bruises on his face. “I was beaten because of you.”